Tamar Antin
@tamar-antin.bsky.social
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Director of the Center for Critical Public Health
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Reports suggest the fed plans to cut HUD’s homelessness program, slashing permanent supportive housing by more than half. The impact would be devastating, and orgs like Insight Housing, among many others, can’t absorb such large cuts. If you can, learn more & support here: insighthousing.org
Insight Housing — Housing and food services
Insight Housing has been a provider of homeless services since 1970. We believe that everyone has a basic right to food, housing, and stability, and work to help our clients move into safe and afforda...
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Really excited to receive my copy of New Directions in Critical Public Health! The first version of this book changed the entire trajectory of my career. What will this publication mean for my next phase?!?! Thanks @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social, @judegreen.bsky.social, and Ronald Lebonte!
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It's out! 5th edition of #qual #methods for health research now published, and in a library near you soon!
Book in packing box
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Never thought I'd be so grateful for an academic journal, but standing up to political interference and censorship? That'll do it.
carlbergstrom.com
"Officials from federal institutions have requested the withdrawal of articles supported by federal funds, citing concerns that they address politically sensitive topics such as transgender health."

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AJPH and the Threat of Political Interference in Scientific Publishing
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"...women remain absent from the medical literature on alcohol...with [their] consumption continuing to be conceptualised as an innate and gendered behavioural problem...challenging researchers’ assumptions on who we research and how, is needed." #criticalpublichealth
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But then of course this morning we received the "State of Washington et al. vs Donald Trump et al." Can anyone tell me how long this roller coaster lasts?
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The health and wellbeing of the populations most in need of NIH research and attention are under threat, as are the public health professionals who will be laid off and forced to find work in an industry that our current administration appears hell bent on destroying.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
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"Public health data and communication [are] a vital resource, as valuable as gold, for protecting American lives... The longer this instability and information drip-feed continues, the greater the biosecurity risk."
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/data-and-c...
by @kkjetelina.bsky.social
Data and communication are gold
What the hell is going on?
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